The #Blog

 Hello! I am Mae, I am just going to write about our time in Uganda over the past couple of days and what we have done.      

    We have been in Uganda for 5 or 6 days (if you count the airport) but I think it has felt like a lot longer. And even though I think most of the team is very sick of rice and goat 3 times a day, we will never be sick of seeing Uganda and meeting the children here. 

     In Uganda there are Primary schools (Elementary) and Secondary schools. (High school) Each of the 4 primary schools we have visited so far have the same energy. I am sort of in awe as much as the kids are when they see our bus. I have never seen people react to really anything the way they react to a bus full of Muzungu's  (The L'gandan word for 'white people') pull into their school. The Ugandan culture is just more physical and touchy in interacting and so these kids all mob around us and hold our hands and hug us and pull out Josiah's leg hair and take out Emily's braids (etc.). The energy of Primary school visits is very chaotic but so joyful. However, I do like the Secondary schools energy a bit better. Often at Secondary schools, after or in the middle of our Youth for Christ routine some kids stand in front of the classroom and just start a dance battle. Truly wild things.  It is maybe hard to get the Secondary school classrooms to be as excited as the little kids, but they understand the message we are giving a little better. I am surprised (a good surprised) each time just how many kids say they want to give their hearts to Christ when the speaker asks. What we are a part of works.

      We have done school visits each day we've been in Uganda, 3-4 visits a day, which eventually is very tiring. So today's mission was a nice change of pace. On the YFC property the Subi home (House for training young mothers) needed to be painted, so that was our job. Today we only painted the primer coat but it took all of our team, our sort of sister team called G-21, plus some others the whole day to paint the entire house. The G-21 team is a sort of young team of Ugandans who lead school visits and are also fostered by Youth for Christ. (Lunch was also good and big today.) Time flowed slower than the school visit days. It was nice to see the staff a little more in they're home at the property there. And at the end of the day there was this impromptu football (soccer) game in a field behind the YFC property. I don't even need to say this but, Ugandans are crazy at football. 

    I feel like I have been here for years. And I truly can barley remember my life back home. (Sorry Mom and Dad) Tomorrow we are going to church and Kampala and seeing more of this beautiful country. And we are all doing well other than a few hurting stomachs and power outages.